*Here's the link to buy OxiClean/Vanish* (amazon paid link): amzn.to/3qH5fey *Detailed guide with more tips:* organizing.tv/white-clothes-turned-yellow/
I just tried this today and it worked amazingly! I completely restored two white t-shirts that I feared was not to be saved 😭 And the baking soda worked really well with the heavy water we have in Denmark - tusind tak for videoen 🎉
Great job and exactly what I do. Problem is people don't give their whites enough time to soak and for these cleaning agents to work. Patience is the key and knowledge is power. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🍻
In India we have vanish. And almost no one speaks about using oxygen based bleaching. Plus I have hard-water at my home. And this is the first video which gave me all the information i needed! Thanks a ton bro!
Awesome! Vanish/oxygen-based bleach is the same thing. I am so glad my video gave you everything you needed. Me and my brother traveled from north to south India along the west coast a few months ago. Your country, and especially your food is awesome haha. Greetings from Norway
I also got to know about vanish just recently😂😂 i just soaked my three white tees,sadly i didnt put them on mild water hope it still works till morning.
@@Organizing-TV India is a package in itself. I am glad you loved the food. Next time you come back, Do travel the eastern states. The variety of cuisines will blow your mind. There’s some communities that cook without spices, or oil. And even then the food is amazing!
@@Organizing-TV P.S. now using the knowledge from this video alone, I have been able to restore many of my coloured clothes as well. The conditioner buildup from the washing machine had made them dull. I soaked them for 1-2hour max.
true white has a shade of blue in it. to slow the yellowing of my whites i wash them with my blues. Howver do not wash a newly bought blue with your whites as there will be too much blue dye leakage, not usually a problem in western countries that require prewashing before retailing fabrics. I don't recommend vinegar in any machine with rubber seals. Vinegar is actually used in the rubber manufacturing process as a coagulating agent to turn the latex sap into a transportable or modable product as you can imagine knowing that, continued exposure to vinegar hastens the degration of the rubber that would otherwise last 20+ years. A leaky washing machine is a cascading host of problems.
Would this work on a medium gray shirt with printed graphics? I left a shirt out on a chair after wearing it about a year ago and the back has yellow spots most likely from the sunlight.
Thank you! super interesting and it works! I tried it a few months ago with great results and just re-watched it to get a quick reminder on how to. Love the channel.
Does this method work for synthetic clothing? I have white tanks that are probably polyester or something that have turned from white to yellowish/dingy looking
Can you do a video like this for Black and colored clothes that have white areas of fabric that have yellowed... Like how to "spot bleach" white areas of fabric that have yellowed but are majority black/colored and cannot be bleached in the traditional manner... Many thanks
Hello I need your help, i soaked my white clothes in water mixed with bleach for 16 hours +, now that I dried them I see yellow stains almost everywhere. Please tell me there is a way to fix it
It sounds like you used chlorine bleach when you soaked the garments. If you do the process I did in the video using oxygen-based bleach they should start to turn white again. I'd leave them in there over night. You can repeat the process multiple times get them all white again.
I tried this soaking method overnight with OxyClean- worked like a charm! My grubby old white Under Armour shirts are now looking quite a bit brighter and rejuvenated.
great video! does this also work for white shirts with dye transfered color? my white shirts turns greyish after washing them together with colored clothes lol.
I'm glad to hear that it was useful :) I ran the washer at 40℃ as that was the temperature the t-shirt tag recommended. Oxygen-based bleach is a little more effective at high temperatures, so I went as high as the garment allowed. Then I did an extra rinse just to make sure that all the cleaning products were rinsed out since we used so much during the process of making the shirt white again
Did you use regular chlorine bleach on it? That generally turns them yellow. As for the methods here, it will probably whiten the pink color in the process as well, so you'll have to consider if you're comfortable with that.
Do you know what type of stain it is? Emzyme-based stain remover or oxygen-based bleach are my two top ways to get rid of stains. You can pretreat the stains in a basin then run them trough a wash cycle afterwards
@@Organizing-TV hey thank you so much for the response I have no idea, I never dropped anything on it, may be dirt? But it’s got a yellowish tint it’s like of like how the dress shirt collar gets that weird dark yellowish/yellowish colour but on a blue t shirt and my light blue dress shirt in many areas same colour as the collar (yellowish) . Based bleach is fine for light blue?
@@kriskumar3149 It sounds like it could be from sweat/deodorant. An oxygen-based bleach should work just fine on a light blue shirt :) I hope it works out well
Can you help me please? I have a pair of white ALO yoga pants that had a spot that I used beach on. The bleach turned the material yellow. 😢 The material is some kind of synthetic, I was not supposed to use bleach. I did not do the important thing to read the instructions. 4:55 Is there anything that can take it out.
@@Organizing-TVHi! Unfortunately I did the same thing and I used Clorox bleach 🤦🏽♀️. Would you recommend the same remedy you described in your video to get the yellowish stain out?
@@Junemarie I'm sorry to hear that! Yes, I'd get the OxiClean for white clothes and give it a go. You may need to repeat the process if they are really yellow though
Thsnks for the video i have an old starter jacket made of nylon the sleeves have white stripes and colour has lesched into them from the rest of the jacket, is it safe to soak the whole thing in bleach?
I recommend to spot treat the arms if you don’t want the rest of the jacket to whiten as well. You can do that either by submerging only the arms, or dissolving the oxygen-based bleach in some water and then applying it directly onto the arms
Hmm in that case I think Google got it wrong. 20 min won't be nearly long enough to remove the level of discoloration the t-shirt in the video had. You could try to cut down on the time you soak the garments in oxygen-based bleach if you're afraid they will be ruined, but from my experience 6 hours is totally fine. I think 6 hours is what the instructions on the packaging said as well if I remember correctly.
I was just thinking a little why google would say this to you. Are you planning to bleach any delicate garments? In that case 20 min could be the maximum that your garments can handle before it starts damaging them
Commenting before I watch the video since im going to bed (probably watching in the morning) my only question is will whatever your process is damage a shirt with a design on it? If so then im probably just gonna have to buy a new shirt
I didn’t realise that my white skirt said ‘don’t bleach’ and used a whitening sachet for a white wash which had bleach in. Everything else came out fine but this skirt now has weird yellowish and white patches. Would this work for the yellow patches caused by bleach? Thanks!
You can, Put one cup of the. powder in the buckle with 2-3 litres of boiling water, let it cool one put the items in…stack them for ( as much time as you have ),squeeze them well and wash them in the washing machine as you usually do 🌸 There is pink version of the vanish powder ,for coloured clothes to 😁
@@Organizing-TV 10 hours (overnight). Upon further inspection the pants are very slightly whiter than the karate jacket which I did not wash so I could compare the two. Perhaps it needs 2-3 attempts?
can i use liquid bleach ? its all i have as of now but its whitening/stain removing bleach so i assume it’ll help, but i wonder if i still have to get like a specific type of bleach to remove the yellow color.
also idk abt adding the vinegar part, is it necessary?😭 (im very cautious if i were to add other things to my washer, i heard vinegar could cause problems to it)
I’d steer clear of chlorine bleach as that will make the garment even more yellow. If it’s hydrogen peroxide bleach then that will work just as well as vanish/oxiclean. As for the vinegar, it’s not essential so if you don’t want to use it you can skip it 🙂 personally I love using distilled white vinegar though. I hope this helps
@@Organizing-TV ah okayy! i only have clorox sadly, it does says it whitens, but idk if i should risk it since i don’t want my shirt to get more yellow, but i checked other brands of bleaches i have and they don’t rlly have any sign of hydrogen peroxide, but no chlorine either. So im unsure what to use
Hey, I like the video bro, can you tell me if it’s un avoidable for whites to go yellow? Or is it only from the reasons you said in the beginning. And also, will the prints and logos on my clothes go yellow aswell? Thanks
I'm glad you liked the video! From my experience, the clothes will stay white for a long time unless you do one of the mentioned things. They may start to lose some of the crisp white color over time, depending on how you use, store, and wash them, but just doing the soak should help turn them back :)
Update: just put them to soak for overnight, i HOPE SO HARD THIS WORKS. Im going to try this this weekend, i have some old white tour tshirts that have been ruined by yellow staining spots due to bad storage and they need emergency cpr. Ty for saying you can try it multiple times, i think ill try it 3x if if doesnt work out im going to just cut out the graphics and make a quilt or something 🥴
@@Organizing-TV oh it absolutely did! A few 3/4 shirts I will have to do it again but a good 10 of them came out totally free of yellow stains! I will add though from experience now, word of advise to anyone who reads this, if you're doing graphic t-shirts and they have big red colored areas, put it in a seperate bucket 😅😅😅 I had a bit of color bleed but the wash with oxiclean took it out luckily. Overall great video, totally worked. Thank you!
*Here's the link to buy OxiClean/Vanish* (amazon paid link): amzn.to/3qH5fey
*Detailed guide with more tips:* organizing.tv/white-clothes-turned-yellow/
I just tried this today and it worked amazingly! I completely restored two white t-shirts that I feared was not to be saved 😭 And the baking soda worked really well with the heavy water we have in Denmark - tusind tak for videoen 🎉
Did you use vinegar also ?
@@randallalderman2260 I did 💪
@@randallalderman2260my sister tried vinegar, never worked.
@@randallalderman2260 Yes I did :)
Brother, you did a good job of making something boring very entertaining lol thank you!
Haha I am glad to hear that
Great job and exactly what I do. Problem is people don't give their whites enough time to soak and for these cleaning agents to work. Patience is the key and knowledge is power. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🍻
Wise words! Cheers from Norway :)
Cheers buddy, look after yourself my friend 👍🍻
In India we have vanish. And almost no one speaks about using oxygen based bleaching. Plus I have hard-water at my home. And this is the first video which gave me all the information i needed! Thanks a ton bro!
Awesome! Vanish/oxygen-based bleach is the same thing. I am so glad my video gave you everything you needed.
Me and my brother traveled from north to south India along the west coast a few months ago. Your country, and especially your food is awesome haha. Greetings from Norway
I also got to know about vanish just recently😂😂 i just soaked my three white tees,sadly i didnt put them on mild water hope it still works till morning.
@@mathewrajanarzary5339 Awesome! I love Vanish. I'm sure it will still work OK with colder water :)
@@Organizing-TV India is a package in itself. I am glad you loved the food. Next time you come back, Do travel the eastern states. The variety of cuisines will blow your mind. There’s some communities that cook without spices, or oil. And even then the food is amazing!
@@Organizing-TV P.S. now using the knowledge from this video alone, I have been able to restore many of my coloured clothes as well. The conditioner buildup from the washing machine had made them dull. I soaked them for 1-2hour max.
Thanks for the great tips-now to attack the pillow cases-newer but getting yellow fast
Literally bought Vanish Oxi Action couple hours before coming home and hearing my said that her white clothes is unfortunately yellow-ish
Ive seen online that the vinegar and baking soda cancels out each other. Basically its like not putting either of them in the wash.
The detergent and fabric softener slots separate them, so they're not in there at the same time :)
Fire look. Definitely inspired to try something new!
true white has a shade of blue in it.
to slow the yellowing of my whites i wash them with my blues. Howver do not wash a newly bought blue with your whites as there will be too much blue dye leakage, not usually a problem in western countries that require prewashing before retailing fabrics.
I don't recommend vinegar in any machine with rubber seals.
Vinegar is actually used in the rubber manufacturing process as a coagulating agent to turn the latex sap into a transportable or modable product as you can imagine knowing that, continued exposure to vinegar hastens the degration of the rubber that would otherwise last 20+ years. A leaky washing machine is a cascading host of problems.
Great my mum also does this, it works👍
I thought mixing vinegar and bleach was a big no no as it makes chlorine gas?
They should never be mixed :) It is ok to use one after the previous one is washed out.
What if I want to do 10+ shirts at a time?
I would hate to have to do them 1 at a time. Soak them in a bucket?
You can soak them all at the same time :)
do the clothes smell like vinegar after the wash
Not at all - vinegar helps neutralize the smell. I actually use white wine vinegar every time I do laundry instead of fabric softener
Hello. I am really enjoying your videos. I am learning a lot. Can you do a video on how to fold bandanas. Thank you 😊
Hey, thanks for the nice comment! I could look into folding some bandanas for sure :)
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/gyImrrV1b_I/w-d-xo.html :) Finally put the video together
Would this work on a medium gray shirt with printed graphics? I left a shirt out on a chair after wearing it about a year ago and the back has yellow spots most likely from the sunlight.
It should be fine 👍🏻
So this is cool and seems like another kind of laundry stripping. Awesome, thanks!
I'm glad you liked it! I have a bunch more planned
Thank you! super interesting and it works! I tried it a few months ago with great results and just re-watched it to get a quick reminder on how to. Love the channel.
Thank you :D I am glad you love the channel. Feel free to repeat the process multiple times if your clothes are really yellow
Does this work with white graphic tees? I have some white shirts but they have logos and designs so I didn’t know if it needed to be plain white.
To be honest I haven't tried, but I don't see why I shouldn't work. I'd love to hear how it turns out if you end up giving it a try
Does this method work for synthetic clothing? I have white tanks that are probably polyester or something that have turned from white to yellowish/dingy looking
It should work just fine :) If you're concerned, you can try to spot treat a small area that is hard to see on the garment and see how it reacts first
Can you do a video like this for Black and colored clothes that have white areas of fabric that have yellowed... Like how to "spot bleach" white areas of fabric that have yellowed but are majority black/colored and cannot be bleached in the traditional manner... Many thanks
Sure! I'll add it to the list :)
Hello I need your help, i soaked my white clothes in water mixed with bleach for 16 hours +, now that I dried them I see yellow stains almost everywhere. Please tell me there is a way to fix it
It sounds like you used chlorine bleach when you soaked the garments. If you do the process I did in the video using oxygen-based bleach they should start to turn white again. I'd leave them in there over night. You can repeat the process multiple times get them all white again.
Such a fun video with very useful info.
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it :D
I tried this soaking method overnight with OxyClean- worked like a charm! My grubby old white Under Armour shirts are now looking quite a bit brighter and rejuvenated.
40 degrees C = 104 F.
Thanks for adding this 😀
my white socks and one of my shirts have turned yellow (it has a design on it) along with one of my light grey shirts how do i fix it
great video! does this also work for white shirts with dye transfered color? my white shirts turns greyish after washing them together with colored clothes lol.
I see! Yes, this should work fine for that too :)
Does it also work with T-shirts with stamps?
Like logos? That should be fine
Is it ok to do this with a white feather down jacket?
Good stuff man, video I've been looking for!
Thank you so much for explaining why you used everything including what baking soda does. I wasn't sure why people said its good to use it.
It's my pleasure! I am glad the video was helpful :)
great video :) just to clarify, did you pre-treat in 40C water and then machine wash in 90C water?
I'm glad to hear that it was useful :)
I ran the washer at 40℃ as that was the temperature the t-shirt tag recommended. Oxygen-based bleach is a little more effective at high temperatures, so I went as high as the garment allowed.
Then I did an extra rinse just to make sure that all the cleaning products were rinsed out since we used so much during the process of making the shirt white again
will these also fix colorful ones, i had a light pink one turn into a faded dingy warm yellow..
Did you use regular chlorine bleach on it? That generally turns them yellow. As for the methods here, it will probably whiten the pink color in the process as well, so you'll have to consider if you're comfortable with that.
My white cotton shirts have turned yellow cos of my wife using alot of bleach in the machine , which method would work ?
This method will work just fine. You may need to repeat it if they are very yellow
Hello, I need help, my light blue shirts have this yellowish discolouring (some form of stain) how should I clean those? Especially dress shirts
Do you know what type of stain it is? Emzyme-based stain remover or oxygen-based bleach are my two top ways to get rid of stains. You can pretreat the stains in a basin then run them trough a wash cycle afterwards
@@Organizing-TV hey thank you so much for the response I have no idea, I never dropped anything on it, may be dirt? But it’s got a yellowish tint it’s like of like how the dress shirt collar gets that weird dark yellowish/yellowish colour but on a blue t shirt and my light blue dress shirt in many areas same colour as the collar (yellowish) . Based bleach is fine for light blue?
@@kriskumar3149 It sounds like it could be from sweat/deodorant. An oxygen-based bleach should work just fine on a light blue shirt :) I hope it works out well
@@Organizing-TV thank you so much
@@Organizing-TV please do you have any video on how to use that product ?
Can you help me please? I have a pair of white ALO yoga pants that had a spot that I used beach on. The bleach turned the material yellow. 😢
The material is some kind of synthetic, I was not supposed to use bleach. I did not do the important thing to read the instructions. 4:55
Is there anything that can take it out.
Sure! What kind of bleach did you use?
@@Organizing-TVHi! Unfortunately I did the same thing and I used Clorox bleach 🤦🏽♀️. Would you recommend the same remedy you described in your video to get the yellowish stain out?
@@Junemarie I'm sorry to hear that! Yes, I'd get the OxiClean for white clothes and give it a go. You may need to repeat the process if they are really yellow though
@@Organizing-TV great thank you so much I will follow up with an update!
@@Junemarie No worries! I am looking forward to hearing how it worked out :)
Thsnks for the video i have an old starter jacket made of nylon the sleeves have white stripes and colour has lesched into them from the rest of the jacket, is it safe to soak the whole thing in bleach?
I recommend to spot treat the arms if you don’t want the rest of the jacket to whiten as well. You can do that either by submerging only the arms, or dissolving the oxygen-based bleach in some water and then applying it directly onto the arms
6 hours? google says no more than 20 min though
Hmm in that case I think Google got it wrong. 20 min won't be nearly long enough to remove the level of discoloration the t-shirt in the video had.
You could try to cut down on the time you soak the garments in oxygen-based bleach if you're afraid they will be ruined, but from my experience 6 hours is totally fine. I think 6 hours is what the instructions on the packaging said as well if I remember correctly.
I was just thinking a little why google would say this to you. Are you planning to bleach any delicate garments? In that case 20 min could be the maximum that your garments can handle before it starts damaging them
Can you do this with Vanish Oxy Action (Pink Can version)?
Yes :) No problem
@@Organizing-TV Okay😙
In my area the water is high in manganese. Everything white becomes cream colored over time in the wash.
I'm sorry to hear that! Have you tried using any products to soften the water you use to wash your clothes?
Can I do this with more shirts at a time? Might be a dumb question but I do have quite a few of then to restore heh
Yes that will be fine 👍🏻 just make sure that they are fully submerged
Also remember to spot threat them a little if they’re stained before you toss more shirts on top
@@Organizing-TV thanks for the answers, much appreciated 🫶
Commenting before I watch the video since im going to bed (probably watching in the morning) my only question is will whatever your process is damage a shirt with a design on it? If so then im probably just gonna have to buy a new shirt
It should be fine :)
I didn’t realise that my white skirt said ‘don’t bleach’ and used a whitening sachet for a white wash which had bleach in. Everything else came out fine but this skirt now has weird yellowish and white patches. Would this work for the yellow patches caused by bleach? Thanks!
Yup :) I'd also spot treat the discoloured areas with oxygen bleach before putting it into the bath to make it more effective
@@Organizing-TV thank you!
Hello i have a white nike tech its yellow now i wonder if i can hand wash it with baking soda because iam scared about the washing machine method :x
I think you should be able to soak it without any problems like in the video :)
Thank you this was exactly what I was looking for! I’m going to try it and see how it works for me.
Awesome! Hope it worked out well.
It might be easier just to buy a new shirt.
Haha it's not so hard :)
Would you recommend doing this for a shirt with prints on it? Or just plain white t shirts. Cheers
You can,
Put one cup of the. powder in the buckle with 2-3 litres of boiling water, let it cool one put the items in…stack them for ( as much time as you have ),squeeze them well and wash them in the washing machine as you usually do 🌸
There is pink version of the vanish powder ,for coloured clothes to 😁
Any updates on those that tried the method?
Bit gutted this didn’t work at all. My karate gi is exactly the same shade of yellow 😢
I'm sorry to hear that! How long did you leave it in for?
@@Organizing-TV 10 hours (overnight). Upon further inspection the pants are very slightly whiter than the karate jacket which I did not wash so I could compare the two. Perhaps it needs 2-3 attempts?
can i use liquid bleach ? its all i have as of now but its whitening/stain removing bleach so i assume it’ll help, but i wonder if i still have to get like a specific type of bleach to remove the yellow color.
also idk abt adding the vinegar part, is it necessary?😭 (im very cautious if i were to add other things to my washer, i heard vinegar could cause problems to it)
I’d steer clear of chlorine bleach as that will make the garment even more yellow. If it’s hydrogen peroxide bleach then that will work just as well as vanish/oxiclean.
As for the vinegar, it’s not essential so if you don’t want to use it you can skip it 🙂 personally I love using distilled white vinegar though.
I hope this helps
@@Organizing-TV ah okayy! i only have clorox sadly, it does says it whitens, but idk if i should risk it since i don’t want my shirt to get more yellow,
but i checked other brands of bleaches i have and they don’t rlly have any sign of hydrogen peroxide, but no chlorine either. So im unsure what to use
if it doesn’t work then i’ll js get the vanish/oxiclean 🦭
Thank you so much ❤
I'm glad it was helpful :D
Would this work on a football jersey??
Yes :)
is it okay to do this with white shirts that have print on them ?
did u try it i also need to know this lol
Hey, I like the video bro, can you tell me if it’s un avoidable for whites to go yellow? Or is it only from the reasons you said in the beginning. And also, will the prints and logos on my clothes go yellow aswell? Thanks
I'm glad you liked the video! From my experience, the clothes will stay white for a long time unless you do one of the mentioned things. They may start to lose some of the crisp white color over time, depending on how you use, store, and wash them, but just doing the soak should help turn them back :)
@@Organizing-TV ok thanks:)
do you have a version for colored clothes?
Not at the moment! I could try to help you though
great video! are the results the same if you put them in the dryer rather than air drying ?
Thanks! Yes, it's fine putting them in the dryer when you're done washing as long as they can normally handle it as well :)
You would be great working on a shopping channel
HAHAHA
Update: just put them to soak for overnight, i HOPE SO HARD THIS WORKS.
Im going to try this this weekend, i have some old white tour tshirts that have been ruined by yellow staining spots due to bad storage and they need emergency cpr. Ty for saying you can try it multiple times, i think ill try it 3x if if doesnt work out im going to just cut out the graphics and make a quilt or something 🥴
I hope it worked out for you. Iove to hearthe results
@@Organizing-TV oh it absolutely did! A few 3/4 shirts I will have to do it again but a good 10 of them came out totally free of yellow stains! I will add though from experience now, word of advise to anyone who reads this, if you're doing graphic t-shirts and they have big red colored areas, put it in a seperate bucket 😅😅😅 I had a bit of color bleed but the wash with oxiclean took it out luckily. Overall great video, totally worked. Thank you!
@@qkun Haha good looking out! I am so glad to hear that it worked well for you :D
Stripping isn't necessary. One or two packets of Rit White Wash does the trick.